It wasn’t “slavery”, it was just “involuntary relocation”.

[fantome profane]

Proposal to teach slavery as 'involuntary relocation' sent to Texas education board


This is the worst kind of blatant political correct garbage. They are trying to create a generation of students who are ignorant of their own history.

“The board is considering curriculum changes one year after Texas passed a law to eliminate topics from schools that make students “feel discomfort.”


Education should make people feel uncomfortable. If you don’t feel uncomfortable sometimes you are not learning anything. But I guess that is the point.

 

[Revoltingest]

And concentration camps for Japanese Ameristanians
could be called a "holiday in the wilderness".

 

[Subduction Zone]

Proposal to teach slavery as 'involuntary relocation' sent to Texas education board


This is the worst kind of blatant political correct garbage. They are trying to create a generation of students who are ignorant of their own history.

“The board is considering curriculum changes one year after Texas passed a law to eliminate topics from schools that make students “feel discomfort.”


Education should make people feel uncomfortable. If you don’t feel uncomfortable sometimes you are not learning anything. But I guess that is the point.

Of course! It makes perfect sense. A young African man wakes up in the US and says "Hey! My ticket was for Monte Carlo, not Tuskegee! Well, nothing to do now except to work for free for the rest of my life for the man with the big whip"..

See, it was all voluntary labor. We can't help it if the travel agency screwed up.

 

[Stevicus]

Proposal to teach slavery as 'involuntary relocation' sent to Texas education board


This is the worst kind of blatant political correct garbage. They are trying to create a generation of students who are ignorant of their own history.

“The board is considering curriculum changes one year after Texas passed a law to eliminate topics from schools that make students “feel discomfort.”


Education should make people feel uncomfortable. If you don’t feel uncomfortable sometimes you are not learning anything. But I guess that is the point.

Blatant historical revisionism. I don't know if it's a reinventing of the infamous "Lost Cause" version of Civil War history. Although the Lost Cause version sidesteps slavery, I believe they still called it slavery.

From the link to the article:

Part of the proposed draft standards obtained by the Tribune say students should “compare journeys to America, including voluntary Irish immigration and involuntary relocation of African people during colonial times.”

The board is considering curriculum changes one year after Texas passed a law to eliminate topics from schools that make students “feel discomfort.”

The state's public education system has become heavily politicized in recent years, with lawmakers passing legislation to dictate how race and slavery should be taught in schools and conservative groups pouring large amounts of money into school board races.

Texas drew attention for a similar situation in 2015, when a student noticed wording in a textbook that referred to slaves who were brought to America as "workers." The book’s publisher apologized and promised to increase the number of textbook reviewers it uses.

“Compare journeys to America, including voluntary Irish immigration and involuntary relocation of African people during colonial times.”

This is supposed to be for second graders?

 

[Twilight Hue]

Proposal to teach slavery as 'involuntary relocation' sent to Texas education board


This is the worst kind of blatant political correct garbage. They are trying to create a generation of students who are ignorant of their own history.

“The board is considering curriculum changes one year after Texas passed a law to eliminate topics from schools that make students “feel discomfort.”


Education should make people feel uncomfortable. If you don’t feel uncomfortable sometimes you are not learning anything. But I guess that is the point.

Just wait until these insulated people take charge someday.

 

[Windwalker]

Proposal to teach slavery as 'involuntary relocation' sent to Texas education board


This is the worst kind of blatant political correct garbage.

I'm sorry. You misread this. It isn't political correctness. It's historical revisionism, downplaying the sins of the South. It wasn't "slavery", it was some other euphemism. This is the opposite of being PC.

 

[fantome profane]

I'm sorry. You misread this. It isn't political correctness. It's historical revisionism, downplaying the sins of the South. It wasn't "slavery", it was some other euphemism. This is the opposite of being PC.

It is PC. It is not correct, but it is what the political powers are imposing. That makes it politically correct.

It is PC, it is historical revisionism, it is Orwellian, it is garbage.


(Do yourself a favour, do a little research on the real origin of what politically correct means and it’s origin. A lot of people mistakenly think PC must be from the left, but that is a misunderstanding)

 

[tytlyf]

They want to create a society of fragile snowflakes

 

[Augustus]

It's historical revisionism, downplaying the sins of the South.

"Revisionsim" is often incorrectly used as a pejorative. Basically all scholarly history is a product of revisionism.

Attempts to correct the whitewashed origin myths of the US are historical revisionism for example.

Revisionism is challenging established narratives by reevaluating the evidence (it may be more or less correct than the established view, but it is a legitimate attempt to challenge them).

By using it as a pejorative it actually weakens attempts to revise biases that were popularised by traditional culture, elites and scholars.

This is historical falsification, sometimes called historical negationism, which is an attempt to deny, obfuscate or manipulate established history for ideological purposes.

 

[fantome profane]

This is historical falsification, sometimes called historical negationism, which is an attempt to deny, obfuscate or manipulate established history for ideological purposes.

Political correctness.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

“Compare journeys to America, including voluntary Irish immigration and involuntary relocation of African people during colonial times.”

This is supposed to be for second graders?

Yeah. Crop failure and famine and a failure of the English to help alleviate the situation compared to being herded up and transported like cattle. And probably all to hype up American Exceptionalism.

 

[TheBannerofHomuraAkemi]

Yeah, fascist like to erase history.

 

[Windwalker]

Political correctness.

Since when does political correctness, which is a liberal thing, mean downplaying slavery in the South? Explain.

 

[Windwalker]

This is historical falsification, sometimes called historical negationism, which is an attempt to deny, obfuscate or manipulate established history for ideological purposes.

I stand corrected.

 

[F1fan]

Do you know what makes white students uncomfortable? Knowing their white leaders are trying to minimize their racist past when the rest of the world knows the truth. Trying to teach revisionism is teaching shame.

 

[fantome profane]

Since when does political correctness, which is a liberal thing, mean downplaying slavery in the South? Explain.

It is not a liberal thing. It is a power thing. It is when those who have power use that power to dictate what people are allowed to say and think. 2+2=5 is politically correct if the ones in power say it is so.

Just because conservatives succeed in putting that label on their opposition doesn’t mean that is what the term means.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Since when does political correctness, which is a liberal thing, mean downplaying slavery in the South? Explain.

It is a gross error to think that political correctness is only a "liberal thing".

 

[Heyo]

Proposal to teach slavery as 'involuntary relocation' sent to Texas education board


This is the worst kind of blatant political correct garbage. They are trying to create a generation of students who are ignorant of their own history.

“The board is considering curriculum changes one year after Texas passed a law to eliminate topics from schools that make students “feel discomfort.”


Education should make people feel uncomfortable. If you don’t feel uncomfortable sometimes you are not learning anything. But I guess that is the point.

Texas has a history of disdain for education.
"Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." - https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...skills-really/2012/07/08/gJQAHNpFXW_blog.html

They really like their people to stay as dumb as possible. And it's not only Texas, others are just less blatant about it. Not all people I debated here on STEM topics are from Texas. That may be because Texas also practices stupidity imperialism. Texas often decides what books are available in the US. Publishers cater to the biggest customer, so the disinformation spreads through the US.

 

[Twilight Hue]

It is a gross error to think that political correctness is only a "liberal thing".

Then maybe liberals ought to refrain from using it then.

 

[fantome profane]

Then maybe liberals ought to refrain from using it then.

Everyone should refrain from using terms incorrectly.